Where the broad Savannah flows along to meet the mighty sea
There stood a peaceful village that meant all the world to me.
'Twas the home of happy people, I knew each and every one
My kin folk and all the friends I loved, the town was Ellenton.

But the military came one day and filled our hearts with woe.
"We'll study war right here," they said, "The little town must go."
Then they came with trucks and dynamite, the din and dust rose high.
I stood and gazed in silence as I watched my hometown die.

Then they brought bulldozers by the score where children used to play
Pushed over all the trees we loved, and scraped the flowers away.
Now the homes are gone, the schoolhouse too, the sweat and toil of years
And with them all the joys and hopes of past and future years.

The little church was hauled away, the fields are brown and bare
And in their place a mighty plant - they build the H-bomb there.
Now the smoke hangs o'er the valley like the mist before my eyes
Tht has been there ever since the day I saw my hometown die

Oh, the friends we know and love, we'll meet upon some other shore
For Ellenton - fair Ellenton - is gone forevermore.